widestudio is an open source, integrated development environment for desktop applications purely made in japan. this enables you to develop gui applications that can run on windows95/98/me/nt/2000/xp, windowsce, linux, freebsd, solaris, macosx(w/x11), btron, t-engine, mu-clinux(wo/x11) in various programming languages such as c/c++, java, perl, ruby, python,objective caml since an application is build on mwt(multi-platform widget toolkit) which runs on multiple platforms, widestudio applications are all source compatible between these platforms. if you developped an application in c/c++ language, you only need to re-compile the source code to run on a different platform in as native code.